Cover Art Finished!

I am now completely caught up with all cover art updates! I also posted a new video last Wednesday, an old video that I brought back called Trojanpear Reacts To The Ending Of Bunnicula Strikes Again! Here they all are:

 

 

Coming Sunday: The long awaited Family Game Night Video from Trojanpear's Sunday School.

Almost Caught Up!

Last week I worked on Trojanpear's Book Club and Trojanpear Presents cover art. This week I expect to finish most cover art updates and progress forward with videos. I will post a video Wednesday that may be familiar to some as it is a re-upload of a video I posted a few years back. I will then make a slight deviation in my plans as a new subscriber requested more Monster Movie Tournament videos, so I will be posting a new video for that series next. Until then, enjoy all the new cover art:

Cover Art Troubles

Tuesday, I created 4 new cover art title cards for Trojanpear's Cats, but had truble uploading them to Youtube. The problem is fixed now. Here they are:

 

 

 

 

I also posted the long awaited video in the Monster Movie Tournament Monday. I enjoyed how things worked out with this video because this video required a lot of work. I will have even more cover art updates to share tomorrow. Until then, here is the new video:

 



Looking Back In A New Trojanpear's Cats Video

Tuesday I posted my newest video from Trojanpear's Cats, Coming Home.

This short video, part of my 2 minute series, is a old video I shot back when I received my Flip Camera around the time of the Dope Party video. It was originally part of a series of video shorts I was going to compile as part of a video called "A Night at the Rivercenter" that I never did. I have lost all the other videos except this one. It is not much more than a look at some of the cats who welcome us home. It is nice to see some of the cats like Larry and Eely who passed away.

New cover art updates have been posted. I will blog about it tomorrow.

Monster Movie Tournament Cover Art Updated!

Yesterday I completed the remaining cover art updates to the Monster Movie Tournament series. Here they are:

 

I also posted a new video Sunday to my Trojanpear's Sunday School channel. It's a video I made back in December about my future plans for the channel including a detailed look at my vision for our Sunday School group for the new year. The video, titled Vision 2015, was supposed to introduce you to what would be happening in the coming months in the Sunday School including goals for 2015. I did not post the video until now because the plan was not accepted by the group so I felt it was pointless to upload it; however, it is still a good look into yearly planning ideas that you or your church may want to think about implementing in some way. Here is the video:

 

 



If you are not subscribed to Trojanpear's Sunday School and you're interested in these church or Bible Study related topics, please subscribe on Youtube to stay informed on upcoming videos. More on the way soon. Blessings.

New Series: Trojanpear's Food Club! First Up: Pizza Hut

Saturday I posted my first video in the new Trojanpear's Food Club Series: Trojanpear Goes To Pizza Hut. Here is the video.

This new food club series will be posted on Saturdays, either the first or second one of the month, and will explore three different categories:

1. Cooking Series - This will be introduced later in the series. I hope to eventually make this the focus of the series in the future. I will prepare dishes, drinks, desserts, etc. as well as discuss some of the influential cooks of my childhood.

2. Tasting Series - I will occasionally try foods or drinks and give my opinion of them. Some videos would be ranking my favorites in different food and drink categories.

3. Eat Out Series - This is currently what I am working on. I will go to various restaurants and give my opinion of them as well as compare similar establishments.

This video on Pizza Hut is the first on my search for the best pizza in town with the best deal, appearance, etc. I made two videos in this series already, but I will be revisiting these two establishments because I did not go into full detail on which ones were the best based on ALL factors. I think this series has great potential and am looking forward to what is coming in this series.

What do you think about the new series idea?

Trojanpear's Top 10 Videos of 2014 Is Finally Here

As stated in my opening tag for this video, it's three months late, but better late than never. My annual look back at my favorite videos I created the past year is back for its third year. This may be the best of the three as it is a little more creative and has some great moments to look back on. I encourage you to check these videos out to get an idea of what you are missing. You can find these videos on my Trojanpear Presents playlist. This video does not have a cover art image yet as I am not ready for one on this video yet.

Also, get ready for another video tomorrow as I launch my new series, Trojanpear's Food Club. We'll be "making it great."

New Cover Art From Thursday: Trojanpear Presents

As promised, here are my new video cover art pictures I made Thursday for my Thursday video series, Trojanpear Presents.

 

I have now completed all but one of my cover art pictures for Trojanpear Presents and that one video that has not been updated needs other video projects to be finished first. I like all of these, but my favorite has to be the Scarlettpear cover art because of how the background works with the original picture. Which is your favorite? 

The Trojanpear Returns!

I am back and posting new videos again. Here is my first one of 2015: A Message From The Trojanpear.

In this simple 7 minute video, I explain my absence and plans for the future. I will be updating my video cover art as well as moving around some of my videos. This has already begun as I did several cover art updates last night. I will post those updates tomorrow on the blog. I note in the video that I will be updating regularly but was somewhat vague about how often because things change constantly and I did not want to commit myself to something I could not deliver. Let me try to explain my goal:

1. I will be posting in 7 - 9 categories with each playlist assigned to a specific day of the week to be uploaded.

Sunday - Trojanpear's Sunday School, Pajama Preaching (will be posted to either The Trojanpear channel or Trojanpear's Sunday School channel)

Monday - Monster Movie Tournament

Tuesday - Trojanpear's Cats

Wednesday - Trojanpear's Book Club

Thursday - Trojanpear Presents, Those Guys From Another Dimension (will be posted to The Trojanpear, Those Guys From Another Dimension, Squidrift Idunno, or ChillWilliWill's channel)

Friday - The Nintendo Power Adventure

Saturday - Trojanpear's Food Club (New Series of 3 food related programs)

2. I will TRY to upload a video per week with each series having varying timelines.

Monster Movie Tournament, Nintendo Power Adventure - every other month (this means one month will be one series and the next month will be the other series)

Trojanpear's Sunday School, Trojanpear's Book Club, Trojanpear's Food Club - every month

Pajama Preaching, Trojanpear's Cats, Trojanpear Presents - as needed (can be more or less often)

Those Guys From Another Dimension is a series I am not involved in as far as editing and uploading goes, but any special projects that I do will be on a as needed basis. You may see this series weekly, monthly, or not at all for months. I cannot say when they will be posted, but we have 4 episodes recorded that have yet to be uploaded.

I will stop here for now. Tomorrow, I will present the first cover art updates.

The NCAA Tournament Begins Again

It's that time again. Time to fill out the brackets and watch the NCAA and NIT tournaments. I am hoping I do much better than I did after last year's debacle. It was easily my worst year ever. Maybe this year I will actually do well in the NIT tournament. Already I am 4-1 which is good start. I also got the first NCAA match correct as well. We will see how things play out the rest of the evening. Here are the remaining predictions:

NCAA:

Ole Miss over BYU

NIT:

Texas A&M over Montana
Illinois over Alabama
Stanford over UC Davis
Murray St over UTEP

Hibachiiii!!!!

My friend Will Burgan, "the master of ceremony" just came back from his business trip the other day, so we went to our favorite lunch place, Hibachi Buffet. You may have seen the video I posted some time ago about our trips to Hibachi. We usually try to go every week and are usually successful. I cannot fully explain why I love it so much except that it is a Chinese buffet which I tend to like anyway, it has a lot of variety in terms of food selection, it is clean and very nice, and it is a reasonable price for what you get. I also have a discount card which I get a free drink every time I go. I also enjoy meeting with ChillWilliWill because we get to discuss a variety of things ranging from what is going on in our lives to church and Bible discussions.
What place do you and your friend go to on a regular basis just to talk and enjoy a good meal?

Interstellar Becomes Early Favorite of Movies in 2015

 

Christopher Nolan does it again! He has become one of my favorite directors of the past decade having directed The Dark Knight and Inception, two movies I absolutely love. Now, he has given us another amazing movie, Interstellar. I was not initially interested in this movie because the trailers did not lead me to believe that it could come close to his other great movies; however, after seeing it tonight, I was way off in my opinion. The movie features the earth in a post-apocalyptic setting that that has a 1960's feel to it. A former NASA astronaut turned corn farmer played by Matthew McConaughey is lead to a hidden NASA base from hints provided by a "ghost" in his daughter's room. NASA recruits him for a mission that will send their team though a wormhole near Saturn to find a new planet that the human race can go to. The early scenes build the characters well before the father takes off with his team to find a new planet. The score for the movie is chilling and helps add tension to parts of the movie. Hans Zimmer also knows when to not have any music playing to add to the silent sound in space much like 2001: A Space Odyssey. In fact, this movie has many similarities to 2001 while not being too much like the movie. The thing that stands out most in this movie is the visual effects because you do not realize that there are visual effects in this movie. It is that good. I had to stop and realize that a scene in the movie had to have visual effects because it could not be real, but it looked just like the real thing. There is no wonder why it won the Oscar for Visual Effects. 

There is so much I would like to comment on, but like many Christopher Nolan films, there are many surprises in this movie (even if they are easy to figure out). So, I will not mention much more about this movie other than it has one of those big scenes that make you want to see the movie just to see that part of the movie. This is easily my favorite movie of 2015 so far, but it is still early. If you have not seen this movie, you need to see it. If you can, go see it at the theaters before it is gone.

5/5 Stars

Time to Post Again!

I will be posting more blogs on a regular basis starting with this post today. It is short and to the point and will kick off the new season. I am not posting much because I am  so tired now so I will have to stop here for now.